Hi,
I have accidentally removed myself from the Home folder of my local
installation of reporting services. My security group was using an old
domain group and RS warned me that it was invalid. I deleted the entry
which was Content Manager, thinking that I was in the
BuiltIn/Administrators group and therefore would still have access to
localhost/reports. Unfortunately, I realised that I was not in the
administrators group on my PC (A company policy), so I lost all access
to my reports deployment. However, when I got added to the local
administrators group, I found that I still did not have access to the
Reports website.
My question is: Is there a way to manually add a user as a Content
Manager without using the http://localhost/Reports website? I seem to
recall a possible way using rsconfig, but have not been able to find a
relevant posting. I really do not want to uninstall and reinstall RS.
Thanks!To reply to myself in case other people ever have this problem:
I don't think you can do it with rsconfig.
In the end, I went into the ReportServer database and looked at the
users, roles and policies tables.
I found a user that was in the database as a Content Manager
(builtin/administrators is usually in there by default, but I had
another user there).
I then edited the PolicyUserRole table to change the user_id for a user
that had Content Manager access and a policy of "0" for my own user.
This let me back into the localhost/reports page where I then added my
domain name again. If you don't have a Content Manager already, take
the guid for that role and paste it into your role.
If I didn't have a user in there, I assume I could just add one, but I
am unsure about the generation of the guid.
I don't know what the official way to do this is, but as a hack, it
worked.
MDXQuery wrote:
> Hi,
> I have accidentally removed myself from the Home folder of my local
> installation of reporting services. My security group was using an old
> domain group and RS warned me that it was invalid. I deleted the entry
> which was Content Manager, thinking that I was in the
> BuiltIn/Administrators group and therefore would still have access to
> localhost/reports. Unfortunately, I realised that I was not in the
> administrators group on my PC (A company policy), so I lost all access
> to my reports deployment. However, when I got added to the local
> administrators group, I found that I still did not have access to the
> Reports website.
> My question is: Is there a way to manually add a user as a Content
> Manager without using the http://localhost/Reports website? I seem to
> recall a possible way using rsconfig, but have not been able to find a
> relevant posting. I really do not want to uninstall and reinstall RS.
> Thanks!|||If you can add yourself to the local admininstrator role of the server that
RS resides on, then you will automatically have all the rights you need with
RS.
Bruce Loehle-Conger
MVP SQL Server Reporting Services
"MDXQuery" <imgroup1@.hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> To reply to myself in case other people ever have this problem:
> I don't think you can do it with rsconfig.
> In the end, I went into the ReportServer database and looked at the
> users, roles and policies tables.
> I found a user that was in the database as a Content Manager
> (builtin/administrators is usually in there by default, but I had
> another user there).
> I then edited the PolicyUserRole table to change the user_id for a user
> that had Content Manager access and a policy of "0" for my own user.
> This let me back into the localhost/reports page where I then added my
> domain name again. If you don't have a Content Manager already, take
> the guid for that role and paste it into your role.
> If I didn't have a user in there, I assume I could just add one, but I
> am unsure about the generation of the guid.
> I don't know what the official way to do this is, but as a hack, it
> worked.
>
>
> MDXQuery wrote:
>> Hi,
>> I have accidentally removed myself from the Home folder of my local
>> installation of reporting services. My security group was using an old
>> domain group and RS warned me that it was invalid. I deleted the entry
>> which was Content Manager, thinking that I was in the
>> BuiltIn/Administrators group and therefore would still have access to
>> localhost/reports. Unfortunately, I realised that I was not in the
>> administrators group on my PC (A company policy), so I lost all access
>> to my reports deployment. However, when I got added to the local
>> administrators group, I found that I still did not have access to the
>> Reports website.
>> My question is: Is there a way to manually add a user as a Content
>> Manager without using the http://localhost/Reports website? I seem to
>> recall a possible way using rsconfig, but have not been able to find a
>> relevant posting. I really do not want to uninstall and reinstall RS.
>> Thanks!
>
